2 pm – 2.45 pm: Choices in Ritual Imagination: The Role of the Messiah in Early Jewish and Christian Texts about the Meal in the World to Come Claudia Bergmann (University of Erfurt)
2.45 pm 3.30 pm: The Unwashed Masses: Handwashing as a Ritual of Social Distinction in Rabbinic Judaism Jordan Rosenblum (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
3.45 pm 4.30 pm: ’Mitzvot of the Mouth’: Jewish Rituals of Eating and Reading, Eating and Talking About It Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus (Wheaton College)
4.30 pm 5 pm: Ritual Practices as Tools of Inclusion and Exclusion. Some Methodological Considerations of Group Membership among Jews in Late Roman Sardis Jessica van’t Westeinde (University of Tübingen) Respondent: Gerard Rouwhorst (Tilburg University)